Assessing Agentic AI Risks, SDLC Integration and more | April 2025

Today, we're rolling out powerful new capabilities across Ascend AI and Defend AI—designed to equip your teams with unmatched visibility, more comprehensive protection, and seamless integration into every stage of your AI application lifecycle.

Executive Dashboard: Visibility into Your AI Security Posture

\This release introduces new dashboards for executives and security teams that provide a centralized, real-time view of AI usage and security issues across your organization. These dashboards transform scattered data into actionable intelligence; visibility is essential for leadership teams to understand AI security and risk posture, track key metrics, and make critical decisions. With Straiker’s Executive Dashboard, you can now:

• Surface patterns in AI usage and detect emergent AI security risks across apps and agents
• Pinpoint critical security events that demand immediate response
• Measure effectiveness of controls across your AI-native stack
• Identify high-risk applications that may need stronger defense

This isn’t just a dashboard—it’s your AI security command center. Designed for those accountable for AI security governance, risk, resilience, and innovation at the frontier of AI.

Agentic AI Risk Assessment: Discover and remediate complex vulnerabilities in AI applications

Straiker’s latest Ascend AI update arms your team with advanced agentic security testing. AI applications are evolving fast—from single-turn assistants to autonomous agents capable of holding context, making decisions, and coordinating tasks across complex workflows. This extends beyond a single malicious prompt, it also welcomes a new class of threats: multi-turn, persistent attacks designed to manipulate AI systems over time.

With agentic risk assessment, you can:

• Simulate advanced adversarial patterns that unfold across multiple interactions
• Stress-test your AI systems against long-horizon manipulation and evasive tactics

This capability is essential for any team building agentic applications—where a single prompt isn’t the threat, but the pattern is. Our ethos has always been that only AI can secure AI.

SDLC Integration: Making AI Security Part of Your Development Pipeline

Security shouldn’t be a final checkpoint—it should be baked into every commit. That’s why we’ve reengineered Straiker Ascend AI Risk Assessments to plug directly into your CI/CD pipeline, transforming AI security from a reactive scan into a first-class citizen of your development workflow. This new integration mode allows you to:

• Run automated and streamlined risk assessments with every code or model change
• Set and enforce security thresholds before promoting to production
• Track and measure version-over-version regressions in AI security posture
• Close the loop with developers through continuous, actionable feedback

By integrating security testing directly into your development workflow, you can identify and address vulnerabilities earlier in the process, reducing risk and remediation costs before they hit production.

Elevating Your AI Security Program

We developed these capabilities because security teams are facing a critical inflection point in AI deployment. As someone responsible for securing enterprise AI, I've seen firsthand how the speed of AI adoption is outpacing security controls, creating substantial risk. 

We designed these features to eliminate the friction that slows AI adoption. When organizations implement Straiker's comprehensive protections, security teams can say 'yes' to AI initiatives with confidence. The agentic security testing capabilities are particularly critical as organizations build increasingly autonomous AI workflows that operate outside direct human supervision. Our SDLC integration reflects our belief that security must shift left in the development process rather than being an afterthought.

With these enhancements, enterprises can accelerate their AI adoption while maintaining robust security guardrails—turning security from a blocker into an enabler of AI transformation. To learn more about these new features or to schedule a demo, or visit our AWS marketplace listing.